You have contacts you want to stay in touch with. Clients, former clients, referral sources, prospective clients, centers of influence in your niche, and so on.
When you first met them or connected with them, you may have scheduled follow-up dates and stayed in touch. But you got busy, you forgot about them, or you ran out of things to talk about.
What can you do?
First, create a “hot list” of no more than 30 people you want to focus on right now–your “Focus 30” list.
Schedule time each week to look at this list. Choose one or two people and contact them.
Call, write, message them. Ask about their business, their family, their health, their latest project or their next one.
Keep notes about them and your conversations and emails. Keep a list of their websites and social platforms so you can see what they’re up to.
Keep another list of generic ideas or conversation starters, questions you can ask anyone on your list, things you can offer, things you can tell them about or invite them to.
NB: When you regularly create new content you always have something new to tell people about or offer.
Keep your list up to date. Remove people who aren’t responsive and add new ones when you find them.
Give your personal attention to your “Focus 30” and stay in touch with everyone else via your newsletter.
